Find a Galaxy
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Purchase: hilaroad.com/vi... This video demonstrates how to find the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This galaxy is 2.5 million light years from earth but with some basic knowledge of the night sky and a pair of binoculars it is actually possible to see it! The video is designed for anyone interested in astronomy and it also provides support for the astronomy component of any science curriculum.
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I can't believe it!!! I just saw it!!!! I actually gasped in disbelief. It was breathtaking. It was probably the closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had. Mind blowing. Thank you so much. I want to tell everybody about it.
It's a shame that we have so much light pollution. The last time that I saw the night sky lit up with thousands of stars was the early morning of the Northridge earthquake. The quake knocked every single light coming from homes, buildings, billboards you name it it was out and all I remember me and my neighbors doing was looking up at the sky. There were little kids who had never ever seen what a night sky actually looks like. That's sad. I say the entire world should go black once a year .
I was able to locate the Andromeda Galaxy, with the help of my binoculars and star map, last November of this past year (2012) despite living near an urban area. I saw it through my binoculars more than once just to confirm it was really M31. Although the galaxy appeared just as a faint glowing smudge from where I am, I was thrilled that I was peering at a celestial body as how it looked 2.5 million years ago.
What gets me when you look at M31 is that you can be certain somebody's looking back at you.
So if aliens in another galaxy looks to the earth they'd see it as it was 2.5 million years ago? Thats probably why they wouldn't bother
Billions of galaxies... And how many do we even know about? It's mind blowing.
itss well goodd i read in iths book that andromeda actually stretches 5 moon diameters across the sky i wonder if you were out in the middle of nowhere would you be able to see it with just your eye?? this stuffs mind blowing for me
Thank you so much for this great video! It has helped me dispel some doubts that I had with regard to the position of Andromeda galaxy.
i loved this. its so interesting and amazing. i just expanded my intelligence. thank you
thanks for the vid! Funny to see it with my own eyes :) With binoculars it looked pretty dim but was worth to locate :)
I know that underneath the dipper and to an angle back towards the dipper is the whirlpool galaxy. I also think that the pin wheel galaxy is somewhere in ursa major, aka the big dipper
Its okay to ask! well... A galaxy is a colossal rotating clump of stars, planets, gas and cosmic dust in space containing BILLIONS of Stars (suns).
Our galaxy in which our solar system resides is named "the milky way" and is estimated to contain over 300 billions of stars!!!! our sun, earth and solar system are located in a spiral arm of the milky way. Estimations indicate that there are around 500 billion other galaxies in in the universe
when i get older my wonder will naver stray i like thos guy
While civilizations may be rare in this corner of the Universe we are in, life may be relatively common. Looking at the Andromeda Galaxy, what fascinates me is that you are looking at an object that -- with great probability -- contains life (among the billions of stars within it).
I found Andromeda with binoculars before I saw this video, it looks like a blue fuss.
To see celestial objects clearly, go outside at midnight, which is the opposite end of the sun, so the sky is at it's clearest.
I like binoculars, such an amazing piece of optical instrument.
Absolutely, life and probably billions of civilizations are out there however, many could have developed and then imploded, even the Greek civilization was only around for a few thousand years before it fell. So, we would have to find civilizations at exactly the same point in their development that we are...language? mathematics? computers? or more likely WAY ahead of us & maybe waiting for us to catch up! Think of the possibilities!
everything is just so huge... i was just upset about not getting my way over somethng dumb about 5 minutes ago... now, its like who cares.
what a wonderful place, space
yeah your right same of a galaxy's
spiral,elliptical,irregular......is that right?
great vid. good knowledge
wow,,, i never thought of that,, i guess so!! creepy eh
Wow i own a 15x70 and m31 is going to look huge then!
Wow tou thihnk earth is big yet so small an tiny tho so fortunate
I love your videos :)
i wonder if there real human people out there
your so cool man thx for uploading this vid
good point =)
This is the closets Galaxy too.
do you think ill see it in Washington ?
of course andromeda (M31) is easy to find because its the nearest galaxy
i live in chicago and the only thing i can see is the north star and the moon. I remember when i was a kid my family went on vacation to eagle river-northern wisconsin. I can remember seeing literally thousands of stars and the most amazing thing was actually seeing the milky way galaxy itself the waves of bands of our spiral galaxy. If anybody has seen it it's the most amazing thing. I just took a trip up to wisconsin this year and u can no longer see the milky way galaxy or as many stars :(
This helped me find Andromeda for the first time tonight :) Thanks so much
Thank you so much for the video! It has helped me dispel some doubts with regard to the position of Andromeda galaxy. Now everything is clear.
Space is woven like a blanket and were are just a thread.
So Andromeda is located 9.460.800.000.000 km away from Earth...I guess I should get going, then.
If the milky way rotates in a clockwise motion did that have any effect on which direction the clocks turn?
or just a coincidence that maybe something beyond our understanding influenced us to choose that direction for the hands to rotate?
thank you very much! these videos r so helpful!
One word: Amazing.
I myself have tried to use my telescope in my backyard, and all the times I have never been able to find M31.
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P.S. Isn't this Galaxy a Galaxy that collided with another one a few years ago? I am not sure if it was M31 or M37.
Thanks!
Now I can find Andromeda what I'm searching some years.
Great thanks!
Wow... we all busy around with our lives, worrying about bills and taxes when all this is floating around above us......
Great video. I find the Andromeda easily, by tracing a line from the V of Cassiopeia to the fairly bright star, then move a bit back to Cas to see a fainter star nearby, and another faint star that's slightly to the side. The faint smudge of light that's the Andromeda sits there, like someone's been painting with white paint and accidentaly left a smudgy thumb print.
Thanks for this very informative video. Well explained.
Thank you for this contribute, it is use useful indeed.
when you said you use starry night, i was taking my starry night discs out of the box...
It's amazing how far away galaxies are, if the sun were a period on a piece of paper, our milky way would be the continental US. And we are looking at objects of rival and greater sizes so far away that our eye only sees the closest one as a blurry spec.
Very interesting. Having a good pair of binoculars really helps.
Thanks for this, man. Very useful!
what if I cant see that constellation because im in the southern hemisphere
Thanks a lot, i knew that we can see it with naked eye, but i didn't know where is it, now i found it. using 80mm small telescope i saw it. when i was seeing at billions of stars together, i can't explain what i felt !!!!!!!
Man seing how big the universe actually is, it makes life look small and pointless.
Billions of galaxies? How can we determine that? It could be infinite, light just isn't powerful enough to reach us beyond the point we have seen them. It's mind boggling.
Thanks to this video, I saw my first galaxy last night! Just a speck that wouldn't focus. Took forever to find it. Later when the moon was up, I found I could go right to it in a minute. 10" Dobsonian on order!
hi M31 : )
The universe is endless... endless possibilities... endless number of galaxies.... endless number of stars and planets.... too many light years for the human race to find them all. Why are we even bothering?ಠ_ಠ
It is sad, with how much pollution there is now, you probably can't see it anymore.
well, the light we are receiving from Andromeda is 2.5 million years old, give or take a few years, so I'd say no since Dinosaurs were here around 64 million years ago.
Wow there are billions of galaxies out there i can bet my life we are not alone. I'm 99% sure there are other planets like Earth but no evidence or radio waves to pick up since we godzillion light years apart. Only our spirits will take us there..in a blink of an eye...like being reborn into a next life
has anyone who lives in england been able to see the milky way in a clear sky? coz where I live in Leeds it's practically impossible to see it.
@remix111able U need to check what a galaxy is on wikipedia or something. or just type galaxies in the youtube search engine. It's basically a collection of matter all held together by gravity; in them u can expect to find 200-400 billion stars! crazy huh!
if you know where its at you can see the dim light from it with your bare eye. also you can spot the whirlpool galaxy with binoculars. it's a bit down from andromeda (when facing east at this time of year) and much much more faint.
Thank you so much for this video. I've been trying to find Andromeda in the sky, but now I know how to. Hoping it's a clear night tonight.
Nice vid I'm trying tonight to find it with my 8-20x50 binoculars : )
You can see the Virgo Galaxy cluster with binoculars too. 60 million lightyears away from us.
what is galaxy?what does it do?what is the point of galaxy? i know it's sound stupid but.......plz
wow-this is magnificent-THX a great deal!:)
on that picture you actualy can see the andromeda galaxy with naked eye, but recognizing is another story :P
@marevangel88 If you are using binoculars, Andromeda will look faint. A number of things will influence how faint/bright it will be. Light pollution is a major factor--human light pollution and light from the Moon. From my home, Andromeda looks faint through my binoculars--a small smudge that could be easily missed. In the summer, at the lake where the light pollution is considerably less, Andromeda is brighter and the spread of it is obvious. The difference is dramatic.
I'm not sure if I'm seeing it yet because it looks so faint. I know I'm looking in the correct spot. Does it look faint to the rest of you?? (I'm in SoCal)
@remix111able
Galaxies are there to entertain the curious human race until extinction. That's pretty much it.
Thanks for your great information.
Great video.
how they know its a galaxy they have not be there its are maybe just a star ?
Anything you look at in the sky you are looking at back in time even the sun.
About 4 sec ago
I think there must be intelligent life in other galaxies but they are to away to reach us....
there are so many galaxies...Certainly we are not alone in the universe !
I use 15 x 70 's and barely found it. Heard it can be seen eye-naked....
great vid. light pollution sucks though, i use 15x70's and barely found it...
wonderful. you are one of the greatest scientist in our galaxy system. and i am a high school student! lol
but you have NO idea how big the universe is.
A billion + galaxies with trillions of stars in each one....... my head hurts.
hey umm, may i ask you approx. how much magnification do you need to clearly see even the eyes of the person at 50m?
I am going to have to try this on a clear night. Great video
you know what? the hila people work at my school and teach me and my class from time to time 8D
i saw it with my 10x50 binoculars
i have 10x30 binoculars, are they good.
space is such a big place .
We aren't!! XD
Good upload
EXCELLENT Video. :)
How compelling.
awesome videos
were not alone
cool video
Brilliant video. :D
WOW!!!
well actulally andromeda may have vanished 2.499.999 years ago and you cand still see it :)